Somebelieve all that parents, tutors,and kindred believe.They take their principles by inheritance,and defend them as they would their estates,because they are born heirs to them.- Alan Watts

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled,Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled.So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.- Dr. Seuss

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead,and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.- William Ellery Channing

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay asideall inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne,it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would bean entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.- Millicent Fawcett

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage.He believed that we have valuable and distinct culturaltraditions which need to be institutionalized so thatthey can be passed on to our heirs.- Betty Shabazz

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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteemby feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking;I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.- Edsger Dijkstra

To state the facts franklyis not to despair the future nor indict the past.The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legaciesand gives a faithful accountingto those whom he owes an obligation of trust.- John F. Kennedy

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.- Publilius Syrus

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.- Thomas Fuller

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir.He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.- Francis Herbert Hedge

If the object of poetry is, to make men,then poetry is the heir of prophecy.- Muhammad Iqbal

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent,and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high,so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.- David Rockefeller

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.- Princess Margaret

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not.The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.- Jane Grey

Not in purity or in holiness merely,for in Paradise man was holy,and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrificeof Christ and made an heir of heaven.- Matthew Simpson

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.- Tacitus

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men,then poetry is the heir of prophecy.- Muhammad Iqbal

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir whichhave the general character of ritual or ceremonial,all conventional acts.- J. L. Austin

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate,and as it were the father to take care of us all,is not less valiant than they were, although his skillin the discipline of war was not so much,not being bred therein.- Margaret Cavendish

Success is a state of mind.If you want success,start thinking of yourself as a success.- Joyce Brothers

The reason there are two senators for each state isso that one can be the designated driver.- Jay Leno

Understand the difference between "failing,"which each of us does often,and "being a failure,"which is a state of mind no one shouldever allow themself to fall into.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a state of mind.- Anonymous

Never do anything against conscienceeven if the state demands it.- Albert Einstein

Without health, life is not life;it is only a state of languor and suffering -an image of death.- The Buddha

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.That is our permanent state.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To discover joy is to return toa state of oneness with the universe.- Peggy Jenkins

Life is a process of becoming,a combination of states we have to go through.Where people fail is that they wish to elect a stateand remain in it. This is a kind of death.- Anais Nin

A state of expectancy is a great asset;a state of uncertainty -one moment thinking "perhaps"and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -will never get desired results.- Ernest Holmes

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,nor are there even words.It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.- Peace Pilgrim

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.- Albert Einstein

Consistent happiness is found throughliving in a state of constant gratitude.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Soar - it's your natural state.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Christmas ... is not a date. It is a state of mind.- Mary Ellen Chase

Every citizen should be a soldier.This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,and must be that of every free state.- Thomas Jefferson

A consistent state of Serenity and Compassionis living an Inspired Life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every actual State is corrupt.Good men must not obey laws too well.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People sort themselves into groupsof happy people and unhappy peoplethrough two different, but complementary mechanisms,influence and affinity.I influence those around mewith my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.At the same time, I feel an affinityfor others who are like me in some way -in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.By and by love becomes not a relationship,it becomes a state of your being.Not that you are in love - now you are love.- Osho

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,in a state of civilization,it expects what never was and never will be.- Thomas Jefferson

Love is the total absence of fear.Love asks no questions.Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,not comparison and measurement.- Gerald Jampolsky

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss- don Miguel Ruiz

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue,a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,confidence, justice.- Baruch Spinoza

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin,and dies in this state, is fit for glory.- Adam Clarke

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are usedexclusively for the benefit of the people,to whom they belong.- Fidel Castro

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europefor a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel.Along with all men of good will,I salute the young state and wish it well.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.Every day I walk myself into a state of well-beingand walk away from every illness.I have walked myself into my best thoughts,and I know of no thought so burdensomethat one cannot walk away from it.- Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master,a mistress, and two slaves, making in all,two.- Ambrose Bierce

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe.You relinquish that position to your children.- Jessica Lange

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happierstate of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.- George Santayana

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil;in its worst state,an intolerable one.- Thomas Paine

Urgency is a grim taskmaster.Escape time, and life becomes irie.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie("Irie" is a Jamaican word for being at total peacewith your current state of being.)

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is,of course, living in a state of sin.- John von Neumann

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possibleonly as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.- Plato

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism,and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.- Leo Tolstoy

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.- Henry Ward Beecher

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.- Dick Durbin

Fate is nothing but the deeds committedin a prior state of existence.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.The decayed and degraded state of moral and patrioticfeeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.- John Stuart Mill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.- Winston Churchill

When you are alone you are not alone,you are simply lonely -and there is a tremendous differencebetween loneliness and aloneness.When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,you are missing the other.Loneliness is a negative state.You are feeling that it would have beenbetter if the other were there -your friend, your wife, your mother,your beloved, your husband.It would have been good if the otherwere there, but the other is not.Loneliness is absence of the other.Aloneness is the presence of oneself.Aloneness is very positive.It is a presence, overflowing presence.You are so full of presencethat you can fill the whole universewith your presence and there is no need for anybody.- Osho

Have a talk with your mind(it really is something separate from yourself).Lay down the law."My life begins TODAY.I am like a newborn.I have what I have today;I have my fingers, my toes,some people in my life,some material and financial state.Yesterday is only a dream -perhaps a nightmare,perhaps a cherished memory,but only a dream - nothing more.I will make all decisions and actions based solelyon what I have today as a starting point."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,and that state of the mind can only be describedby presenting that natural appearance as its picture.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.- Helen Keller

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.- Aldo Leopold

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State,ended up in theater and I love to read.- Patricia Heaton